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[novapsyche]

Some people think the first war Americans lost was the Vietnam war.

They're wrong. It was the Civil War that was lost. Not the fighting itself, though that was a horror I couldn't imagine. No, it was the inability to reconstruct the South. If that had gone forward, wow. I can only imagine what kind of world we'd live in today.

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Re: Invasion of Canada - woops, America looses!

[entheo.livejournal.com]

Yes the whole conquest of the west would have gone on very slowly, and Australia might not have been colonised by the British.